Press release

Entrepreneurs
will get another opportunity to make their business dreams come true in the
upcoming fifth season of the Emmy-nominated series, "Shark Tank," the show
where self-made business tycoons invest in the best businesses and products
that America has to offer.

Nationwide
auditions to appear on the ABC hit reality series will take place in five major
cities beginning on Sunday, April 14. The first 500 entrepreneurs who show up
in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia are guaranteed to be
seen and will pitch the "Shark Tank" casting team with their products, services
or ideas.

The
entrepreneurs who dare to enter "The Tank" must try to convince "The Sharks" to
part with their own hard-earned cash and give them the funding they desperately
need to turn their dreams into million dollar realities. But "The Sharks" have
a goal, too - to get a return on their investment and own a piece of the next
big business idea. When "The Sharks" hear an idea worth sinking their teeth
into, they're more than ready to declare war and fight each other for a piece
of it.

"Shark
Tank" received a 2012 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality Program and was nominated
for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Series.